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Nugget Bridge Invitational – Season 3
This August 2nd at 12 PM PDT the third Nugget Bridge Invitational will begin. After a long and grueling season, 32 of Nugget Bridge’s best players will square off in a live tournament to determine the...
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The 90%! Singapore Elite 4 Challenge Finalist Team
Hello everyone! I’m Theron, Elite Four Theron in 2011 and now again (gosh it feels odd holding the title again xD). This is my report for the team used during the Top Cut of the 2014 Elite Four...
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Meet the Managers of the NPA and Player Registration
Sign ups have ended with 10 of the previous managers and 23 new users signing up to manage for this season of the National Pokémon Association. Only 6 spots were open and lots of thought was put into...
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Results and Teams from the Pokémon 2014 South Africa National Championships
The first ever South African Nationals were held on the 15th of June. Disappointingly, the Masters division only featured 25 competitors but it was nevertheless a successful event. All of South...
View ArticleNugget Bridge Circuit Season 3 Wrap-Up & Invitational Results
Another long and grueling Nugget Bridge season finished today with Baz Anderson crowned the third Nugget Bridge Invitational Champion. Baz Anderson bested 32 of the best players this season to take...
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Dat Lapras: A VGC ’14 Team Retrospective Report
Hello everyone! My name is Pat Ball, and if you have ever seen me at a VGC event before, you’ve seen my hat with those exact words on it. I go by the username pball0010 as a remnant of my younger days...
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Happy Go Unlucky – Zog’s Chronicle of the Battle of Legends
Well, hello again. It’s me, the artist currently known as Zog. Yeah yeah, I know, I said I wasn’t playing Pokémon any more. I lied, whatcha gonna do? As you might’ve guessed, there had to be something...
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Tungsten: US Nationals 17th Place Report
“The strongest steel is forged in the hottest fire.” So, it’s that time of year again. A huge national tournament of around 500 people fades out into a tiny field of players who will be...
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Outback Attack: An Australian Nationals Top 32 Report
Hey guys, I’m TheBlooFoxx, sometimes known as the man with frustratingly too many names. In real life I am Ty Power, in Pokémon my IGN is Joshua, and I ladder on Showdown under the nickname ScHoolboy...
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Inner Focusing on a Legendary Metagame: Battle of Legends US 1st Place Report
Hello everyone! My name is Nathan (Kortex) and I am fairly new to the competitive scene. I started playing competitively around the end of 2013 and I first discovered Nugget Bridge a few months ago...
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Mexican Trick Room? Not Really: A Top 8 Monterrey Premier Challenge Report
Hello, everyone! Hector Lozano (Elder Lugia) here with my first post ever. A while ago, here in Mexico, we got our very first official VGC events. Three different Premier Challenges were held this...
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A Long Shot in the Dark: US Nationals 16th Place Report
This is Randy Kwa. After an exciting Independance Day weekend at Indianapolis for the US Nationals, I managed to finish in 16th Place, clinching an invite to the World Championships in Washington D.C....
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Noivern Puns are Frisky Business: A Nugget Bridge Invitational Runner-Up Report
Both the commentators and the community at large can be forgiven for thinking “Who the heck is this?” as I advanced through the Nugget Bridge Invitational (and Major). My name is Samuel East and I go...
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The Komunist Manifesto: 8th Place US Nationals Report
Hi, I’m Gavin “kingofmars” “kingofkongs” “kok” “kom” “kokum” Michaels, and I have a rare medical condition that causes me to slap my head repeatedly. I also won US Nationals last year, and got top 8 in...
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2014 Pokémon Video Game World Championships Masters Division Preview
Each of the participating country’s National tournaments have concluded. The best players in the world have defeated their local rivals. This weekend, the 2014 World Championships are upon us, and...
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Meet Team North America: 2014 World Championships, Masters Edition
This weekend, 20 of the best Pokémon trainers on the continent will represent North America in the Masters Division at the 2014 Pokémon Video Game World Championships. This article will aim to...
View ArticleResults from the 2014 Pokémon World Championships
The biggest weekend in Pokémon is over and players are finally arriving home after an exciting weekend amongst the best trainers in the world. We hope you enjoyed the event — whether it was live or...
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What We Learned: 2014 Pokémon World Championships Edition
During every Pokémon event, we learn a little bit about the game of Pokémon and the community that surrounds it that is worth reflecting on. This Masters-centric column will appear following major...
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Teams from the 2014 Pokémon World Championships
The metagame has evolved significantly over the course of the season as you can probably tell from Scott’s retrospective, so what did we see at the season’s ultimate event? The World Championships is...
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Scar’s Double Switch Trick Room: A Japanese Worlds 2014 Team
This is a translation of Daichi Kumabe (Scar)‘s team report for the 2014 Pokémon Video Game World Championships, where he placed 2-4. Scar qualified for Worlds by reaching the semifinals in this year’s...
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